John 15:11-23

¹¹I have told you these things, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.

¹²This is my commandment, that you sincerely love one another, just as I have sincerely loved you.

¹³No one has greater sincere love than this, than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

¹⁴You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.

¹⁵I don’t call you servants any longer, because a servant doesn’t know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.

¹⁶You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, so that you should go and bear fruit, and so that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name He may give you.

¹⁷I command you this, that you sincerely love one another.

¹⁸“If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.

¹⁹If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you aren’t the world’s, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

²⁰Remember that I told you, ‘A servant isn’t greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my teaching, they will also obey yours.

²¹The world will do all these things to you, however, for My name’s sake, because they don’t know Him who sent me.

²²If I hadn’t come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

²³Whoever hates me also hates my Father.